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Word Stress & Sentence Stress:

Word Stress & Sentence Stress Huang Wanmei

Review of Vowels:

Review of Vowels Three factors for the description of English vowels I. The height of the body of the tongue – highest point of tongue (vertical axis); II. The front-back position of the tongue – highest point of tongue (horizontal axis); III. The degree of lip rounding - lip posture

Unit 8: Word Stress:

Unit 8: Word Stress English is a stress timed language The English language is often referred to as stress-timed. Stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the time to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the number of syllables itself. 1 2 3 4 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 1 and then a 2 and then a 3 and then a 4

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Word Stress Rule:

Word Stress Rule Word type Where is the stress? Examples Two syllables Nouns on the first syllable cen ter ob ject flow er Verbs on the last syllable re lease ad mit ar range Compound Nouns (N + N) (Adj. + N) on the first part desk top pen cil case book shelf green house Adjectives (Adj. + P.P.) on the last part (the verb part) well -meant hard -headed old -fashioned Verbs (prep. + verb) under stand over look outper form

Sentence Stress in English:

Sentence Stress in English Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Like word stress, sentence stress can help you to understand spoken English, especially when spoken fast. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat". You remember that word stress is accent on one syllable within a word . Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence .

PowerPoint Presentation:

Most sentences have two types of word: content words structure words Content words are the key words of a sentence. They are the important words that carry the meaning or sense. Structure words are not very important words. They are small, simple words that make the sentence correct grammatically. If you remove the structure words from a sentence, you will probably still understand the sentence.

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SELL CAR GONE FRANCE Imagine that you receive this telegram message: Will you SELL my CAR because I ’ ve GONE to FRANCE SELL my CAR I ’ ve GONE to FRANCE

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2 1 3 1 Will you SELL my CAR because I ’ ve GONE to FRANCE

Rules for Sentence Stress in English:

Rules for Sentence Stress in English The basic rules of sentence stress are: content words are stressed structure words are unstressed the time between stressed words is always the same